Move to the schematic, right click on the highlighted net and choose the "delete" command

Find/Replace

From the "Edit" menu select the "Find/Replace" command

Use the Find/Replace dialog to complete the task

Auto Name nets (wint increment/decrement)

Select the nets you want to name (area select or "cntrl" select)

From the "Edit" menu select the "Name Nets" command

Fill out the dialog and press "Next"

I think you will find that all of the functionality you want is already available. DC and DxDesigner are different and it will take a little time to learn to leverage the power of DxD if you are used to DC. I was a long time DC user and it took me a little time to figure out where the commands were located. In general DxD makes extensive use of right mouse button menus on objects and the hierarchy browser is a useful design creation tool that was no apparent to me at first. Now that I have been using DxD for about one year I do not think I could go back to DC as I really appreciate the power in DxD that allows me to create designs very quickly.

2. Place text, In DxDesigner, Reference Designator is a property, not plain text. Properties should be edited using the Property window pane. But for your action, I would use copy the part by selecting the part, then holding down the Ctrl key and dragging it with the mouse. This will copy the part and reset the Reference Designator to R? Then Package the design to let the tool create the unique reference designator and avoid duplicating.

In DC I was able to add "text" as a property for component...even with increment or decrement method great for fast renaming (adding) a new Ref. des.

My problem is that I have a design with 200 pcs relays. I had to add manually several ref. des and then I copied this relays (with ref. des.)

In this way I draw one page with 40 relays. (created a bloc of it)

This block I copied several times.... now I have to change the Ref. des. ..... I would appreciated an "auto" increment method to finish it.

I have to say that I redraw a schematic drawing created several years ago in different PCB system... so, the Ref. des I have to preserve...it means I can't use packager for automatic renumbering the Ref. des.

(At the end I had to fill in the Ref. des for all the relays manually )

I have seen on several occasions that when I place a global signal ie. "GND" and then connect an arbitrary net, sometimes the global signal that is to be represented by the GND-post gets the name of the other net...

The only remedy to this is to once again name the net "GND", but in my humble opinion this should not have to be necessary. Shouldn't a global net connect have a sort of precedence over the other nets or am I missing something?

What I want it the ability to have reference designator prefixs on flat designs. You used to be able to do it. But it seems that if Mentor take something out (or forget to put it in) then it becomes and "Enhancement".

This functionality will be available in DxDesigner 2007.6 using the new Add Properties command, this supercedes the Name Nets command and provides similar functionality to the DC Add Text command. Properties may be added by either pre-selecting objects such as pins and adding properties with increment/decrement options, or by pre-defining the dialog and then selecting the object to which to apply the property, this allows for out-of-sequence numbering.